DMesh, designed by Dofl Y.H. Yun, is a custom creative application that turns images into techy artwork. It works by analyzing an image and generating a triangulation pattern for a beautiful finished product. To build the program, Dofl employed a groundbreaking mix of computer vision technologies to make DMesh for someone without any design background.

Since its release, DMesh has taken the media by storm. It’s been featured in the Creative Applications Network,
Creativity Magazine and Fastcodesign. Dofl continues to field requests from professional motion designers and 3D animations, and expects to continue adding features and adapting DMesh for the people who use it for a very long time.

Tutorial

Key Features

Auto Point Generation

DMesh provides auto-generated points, which is useful for people doing animations or larger batches of images. Where other tools only allow manual use, DMesh analyzes the image, adds points and plays with the density accordingly while reducing noise in the mesh.

Dynamic Mesh Density Control

This allows users to control number of mesh dynamically so realistic result having more meshes or abstract one having less meshes can be made easily.

Mesh Density Animation

This feature is in testing. The next version update will include this feature.

Manual Point Editing Tool

Control the number of mesh points dynamically: add more for a realistic result, or subtract to make the image more abstract.

Import/export sequenced images automatically, making it easier for motion designers. Video import/export is in the works.

Computer Vision Technology

Auto Point Generation is built based on computer vision technology so the results are closer to the original source and working with animation files can get more continuity between frames and less noise in the mesh.

Download

The table below shows each feature of DMesh, DMesh Pro and DMesh for iPhone. DMesh Pro goes beyond the basics to expertly handle animation: it loads, processes and exports sequenced images so the results can stand alone or as elements for additional work. Because it has a cost, Dofl uses it to target professional users and tries to continue adding the features they need.

DMesh

DMesh Pro

DMesh for iPhone

Auto Point Generation

YES

YES

YES

Manual Point Editing Tool

YES

YES

-

Camera Image Import

-

-

YES

Bitmpa Image Import

YES

YES

-

Bitmap Image Export (PNG)

YES

YES

YES

Vector Image Export (PDF)

YES

YES

-

OBJ Export (OBJ)

YES

YES

-

COLLADA Export (DAE)

-

YES

-

Dynamic Control of Mesh Density*

-

YES

-

Mesh Density Animation*

-

soon

-

Sequence Images Import/Export*

-

YES

-

Price

Free

$20

$0.99

OS X Version(10.6.6 or later)

Windows Version

-

User Showcase

See how users are using DMesh here. You’ll get an idea of how you use Dmesh for your project. If you would like to share your project, plese contact me.

by Filpevil, VM project

Music video for "Movement" from the Solutions Album

by David Dutton

Leftover Feelings From Symbiosis

by Thomas Blanchard

Music video for Destronics' single 'Look'

by Hironori Sugie

Music video for "Takeshi Nakatsuka" from the 'Lyrics' album

by Oliver Latta

Music Video for 'The confession' album

by Salon Alpin

TEDx Vienna Event Titles

by Simon Russell

Mesh Wall

by Simon Bronson

Circle: DMesh Test

by Steven Hasegawa

One View of Mt. Fuji

Simon Bronson

Syncbody Test: Original film is 'Syncbody' by Daihei Shibata

by Per Zennstrom, Michael Sontag, Hahnemuhle

A digital fashion experiment

by John Likens

Concept work for the 'Marvel's The Avengers' film

by Andrew J. Nilsen

SF Weekly Magazine Cover

by Dofl Y.H. Yun

A series of abstract objects

by Dofl Y.H. Yun

A series of portrait

by Simon Bronson

Experiment: C4D > AE > DMesh > AE

FAQ

Q. I can't figure out how to zoom out through?

A. The current version doesn't have zoom-in/out functions and display 100% scale image. The reason why I did this way is for the performance. DMesh recommends using smaller than your screen resolution for tht reason and supports Vector format export to get high resolution image. Especially Pro version allows to control density of mesh so you can get same result below.

A. DMesh uses Graphic card power to get best performance. Unfortunately some graphic cards on Macs would makes crash you already met. We strongly recommend to test DMesh (Free version) before buying Pro version to check if DMesh works properly on your system